Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poet and novelist, gushes awkwardly about this brief golden age: "Roger and I were busy getting ready for a four-day trip to Big Sur, something we'd done almost yearly since moving to California in 1977. We were putting the blizzard of daily life on hold, looking forward to a dose of raw sublime that coincided with our anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works...
...Amherst faculty beams as Bennett rumbles in, trailed by aides. He smiles, waves, pats shoulders, walking canted forward from the waist as though leaning into a wind. Bennett is a big man -- 6 ft. 2 in., 216 lbs. A friend once pointed him out as "the one who looks like a buffalo." Bennett is in Nashua to praise Amherst as a "School of Excellence," one that does well without begging for federal money. "Insofar as people look to Washington for solutions, they're wrong," says Bennett. At these whistle stops, Bennett usually teaches a class, something his wife Elayne...
...inside- Washington foreign and economic policy experience and star quality that Dukakis lacks, to spurn the call of his party, should it come. Pulled off the bench reluctantly, he can play the exciting savior. The main problem the 6-ft. 5-in. former New York Knicks forward would face is finding a way not to make the 5-ft. 8-in. Dukakis look like the point guard he once...
Despite such caveats, Olmos is proud of the generally high quality of the current Hispanic-themed films and looks forward to the day when Hispanics will be contending for classic roles, playing a Hamlet or a Stanley Kowalski. "Images are changing," he says. "There are more opportunities for Hispanics now, even more than two years...
...native of White Plains, New York said that being in the Boston area was certainly an attraction, but adds that she also looks forward to studying biology and psychology in college, perhaps as a route to medical school. "Another thing I really want to do is get involved with community service," she says. "In high school I did sports and I might do some intramural swimming here, but I really want to work with children and the homeless when I go to Cambridge...